2024 Webster Awards Finalists/Winners
Best News Reporting of the Year – Print/Digital
Winner!
More than just driver error? Why trucks keep hitting B.C. overpasses
Vancouver Sun / Province
Gordon Hoekstra
Exclusive: Audit Reveals Major Failures in MCFD Region Where Boy Died
The Tyee
Katie Hyslop, Jen St. Denis
Best News Reporting of the Year – TV/Video
Presented by the Bradbury Family - In Memory of Keith Bradbury
Winner!
Interior Fires
Global BC
Cassidy Mosconi, Richard Zussman, Troy Charles, Elissa Carpenter, Pat Bell, Mike Timbrell, Justin Okines, Tony Clark, Derek Brade, Chris Allard
B.C. Wildfire Emergency
CTV News Vancouver
Penny Daflos, Alissa Thibault, Abigail Turner, St. John Alexander, Ben Miljure, Jordan Jiang, Curtis Allen
2023 B.C. Wildfire Community Coverage
CBC Vancouver
Michelle Ghoussoub, Lien Yeung, Jon Hernandez, Yvette Brend, Renee Filippone, GP Mendoza, Brady Strachan, Christian Amundson, Chris Corday, Tom Popyk, Corey Bullock, Martin Diotte, Amar Parmar, Jill Constantine, Meera Bains
Excellence in Feature Reporting – Print/Digital
Excellence in Feature Reporting – Radio/Audio
In the Eye of the Firestorm: Chris Walker on the 2023 BC Wildfires
CBC Kelowna
Chris Walker
Excellence in Feature Reporting – TV/Video
Winner!
Stanley Park Resident
Global BC
Alissa Thibault, Sergio Magro, Sharron Bates, Brian Dutkewich
Power of the Paddle – Documentary
BCIT News
Sonya Kuitenbrouwer, Maddison Buckingham, Aleigha Andres, Grace McLeod
Excellence in Investigative & Enterprise Journalism
Presented by the B.C. Crown Counsel Association
Winner!
How the tragic overdose death of a UVIC student sparked changed in B.C.
Vancouver Sun / Province
Lori Culbert
Excellence in Innovative Journalism
They lived, they were loved, then suddenly they were gone: Stories of lives lost to toxic drugs
CBC Vancouver
Courtney Dickson, Akshay Kulkarni, Arrthy Thayaparan, Bridgette Watson, Jon Azpiri, Michelle Gomez, Rhianna Schmunk, Tanis Fowler, Jan Zeschky, Franny Karlinsky, Andrew McManus, Robert Davidson, Baneet Braich
On Queue: Lining up at the Warehouse Sale
The Globe and Mail
Ming Wong, Alana Paterson, Susan Krashinsky Robertson
Winner!
Nourish: How First Nations are bringing food sovereignty back to the table
The Narwhal
Stephanie Kwetásel’wet Wood, Michelle Cyca, Lindsay Sample, Karan Saxena, Ainslie Cruickshank, Matt Simmons, Shawn Parkinson, Karlene Harvey, Jesse Winter, Marty Clemens, Jennifer Gauthier
Excellence in Business Reporting
Endowed by Jean Cormier
Winner!
How an Ohio newspaper sank a BC publishing empire
Fraser Valley Current
Tyler Olsen
Choked Out: The Wildfire Threat to Tree Planters
The Tyee + The Climate Disaster Project
Aldyn Chwelos, Kristen de Jager, Paul Voll
B.C. is millions short on cleanup cost for mines
The Narwhal, The Globe and Mail
Francesca Fionda, Lindsay Sample, Jeffrey Jones, Chen Wang
Excellence in Arts & Culture Reporting
A stolen totem pole returns to the Nisg̱a’a Nation
IndigiNews and The Narwhal
Cara McKenna, Matt Simmons, Marty Clemens
Excellence in Legal Journalism
Presented by the Law Society of BC
The buried history of Tranquille
The Wren
Kallan Lyons, Lauren Kaljur, Jacqueline Ronson
‘Revolving door at the courthouse’: How a B.C. man racked up 21 impaired driving convictions
Vancouver Sun / Province
Glenda Luymes / Abbotsford
Excellence in Health Reporting
Exclusive: Telus Handed BC Contract to Provide Eating Disorders Care
The Tyee
Andrew MacLeod
Excellence in Environment Reporting
Presented by the Pacific Salmon Foundation
Tragically, BC Ignored Lessons of 2009’s Killer Heat Wave
The Tyee + the Climate Disaster Project
Jordan Kovacs, Jimmy Thomson
Parks and Reclamation: How First Nations in B.C. are taking back control of stewardship and access in their traditional territories
CBC British Columbia
Emily Vance, Megan Thomas, Gian-Paolo Mendoza, Megan Stewart
Excellence in Reporting in a Language other than English
Winner!
Has LMIA program become a necessary evil? An In-Depth Report by RED FM News Team
CKYE 93.1 & 89.1 RED FM
Pooja Sekhon, Harjinder Thind, Gurvinder Hanjra
Excellence in Community Reporting
Presented by the Al Roadburg Foundation
Vancouver SRO tenants reject Toronto real estate firm’s push for buyouts
Vancouver Is Awesome
Mike Howell
Winner!
Summer Wildfire Closes Critical Highway on Vancouver Island
CHEK News
Stacy Ross, Dean Stoltz, Skye Ryan, Kendall Hanson, Rob Shaw, April Lawrence, Keith Vass, Kevin Youngblut
Before he died, Nelson’s Michael Guy relied on a now-closed support centre
Nelson Star
Tyler Harper
Kaska Dena: True North (Tchadas Leo)
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